Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners does not go that route. It opens with a shot of a snowy forest, where a deer quietly noses around for food. Into the frame comes the barrel of a shotgun.
Just so, semantic theories and foundational theories of meaning are, pretty clearly, different sorts of theories. The term âtheory of meaningâ has, in the recent history of philosophy, been used to stand for both semantic theories and foundational theories of meaning.
formal semantics - the branch of semantics that studies the logical aspects of meaning. lexical semantics - the branch of semantics that studies the meanings and relations of words. cognitive semantics, conceptual semantics, semasiology - the branch of semantics that studies the cognitive aspects of meaning.